Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (movie)

But consider this our dark mark in the sky: If you're looking to read about "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" without any spoilers, read this instead. The book, which is branded as the official eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series, was published Sunday to all the midnight-release and nerds-dressing-in-cloaks fanfare of yesteryear. The "book" is actually the script of a two-part play, which officially opened Saturday in London. Author J.K. Rowling was there, and she confirmed what many fans suspected about this unusual addendum to her masterful seven-part series.

Harry dies.
Just kidding.
But consider this our dark mark in the sky: If you're looking to read about "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" without any spoilers, read this instead. The book, which is branded as the official eighth story in the "Harry...

Get out of the common room, grab your Marauder's Map and head over to one of these Chicagoland bookstores for a "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" release party July 30.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — Parts One & Two" is a new, two-part play...

The eighth story in the Harry Potter series will be published July 31, Scholastic announced today in a press release.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II" by Jack Thorne is a play based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, Thorne and John...

When it was announced that a new play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," set to debut in London next summer, would be an official sequel to the series, one would think that universal cries of "huzzah!" would echo throughout Pottermore.
Except some...

As a preview to this year's Children's Read & Write Program, which invites children to submit book reviews for possible publication, we asked several Chicago-area authors to tell us what book's setting they would love to live in. Here are their edited...

Only four times in the last 34 years has the Oscar for best picture been awarded to the highest-grossing movie released that year, and usually the box-office difference between the two is in the hundreds of millions. In only slightly more than half of the...

The advance screening of the latest Harry Potter film benefitted Urban Prep Academies and was a sellout at Imax Navy Pier Theatre. As 450 excited fans poured in, many in costume as wizards, Urban Prep founder Tim King was there in his official capacity as...

In the tradition of the "Harry Potter" movies, Universal Orlando has come up with a sequel. On Tuesday, Universal Studios will open Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Diagon Alley, a follow-up to the blockbuster boy-wizard attraction that debuted in 2010....

Everything Harry Potter fans ever knew about love is a lie.
Seven years after the beloved “Potter” books came to an end, author J.K. Rowling said she regrets pairing heroine Hermione Granger and guy pal Ron Weasley.
In a soon-to-be-published interview...

Complete list of nominees and winners for the 84th Academy Awards. Looking for the winners from the 85th Academy Awards? They're here.
BEST PICTUREWINNER "The Artist," Thomas Langmann, producer
"The Descendants," Jim Burke,...

The movie of the fewest words spoke the loudest at the Oscars this year. On an evening suffused with nostalgia, "The Artist," a nearly wordless, black-and-white romance celebrating Hollywood's formative era, won five Academy Awards, including best...

Can you imagine the second half of the "Harry Potter" saga without Ron Weasley? J.K. Rowling apparently did, at least briefly.
The author says that midway through the phenomenally successful series of novels, when she "wasn't in a very happy place," she...

After seven previous films over a 10-year span, $2 billion in domestic box office and still more treasure overseas, Warner Bros. has unwrapped the Harry Potter advertising line it hoped it would never have to use: "It all ends."
In a classic storybook...

Debora Bell would be glad "if 3-D went away."
The Rockville printer is just the kind of filmgoer Hollywood wants to keep happy. Her family goes to movies every week. They get to the first screenings they can, usually at the 3-D-equipped AMC Columbia or...